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This Week at the Q

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Today sees the last day of Quantum’s amazing ‘Summer Hours’ program, but I’m getting ‘This Week at the Q’ live before heading out to enjoy it! It’s been wonderful to enjoy every other Friday off over the summer, and spend some time with my kids on our camping adventures!  So for this week’s Top 5 happenings…

1. We’ve been hearing from customers about the need to protect and retain data for decades, and in many cases the need for a ‘forever archive’ or ‘100-year archive’. Couple this with massive growth in unstructured data, and the need to be able to search and analyze this data, and building a modern data archiving strategy has become a key strategy for enterprises. This week, industry expert Fred Moore of Horison Information Strategies joined us on “The Anatomy of a 100-Year Archive for Unstructured Data” to discuss the scale of unstructured data growth, the applications fueling archive requirements, and the anatomy of the 100-year archive enterprises should consider. The replay is available here .

2. Like the webinar? We have a new white paper to go with it! Read “Anatomy of the 100-Year Archive” , by Fred Moore of Horison Information Strategies, to learn when data reaches archival status, data classification guidelines, the role of blocks, files and objects, and the various capabilities that enable an archive for the ages.

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3. Another topic we’re hearing from customers more and more, is ransomware protection. For every ransomware attack we see in the news, there are hundreds of others that don’t get reported. Virus strains and cyber criminals have become increasingly insidious in their attempts to penetrate networks and take control of all digital assets, including backups. A virus cannot bypass a physical barrier formed between your data and the network nor a logical barrier based on data immutability. A solution doesn’t have to be expensive or complex to be effective.  Register for our upcoming live webinar on October 22, “Protect Your Data with a Layered Ransomware Approach.”

4. Having a contingency plan in the event of unforeseen operational disruptions is good business. Whether it’s to deal with the current COVID-19 pandemic or in anticipation of a potential natural disaster, our customers build continuity plans with the technology needed to keep business operations afloat, as well as ensuring employees are trained in using remote working technologies. Quantum’s Diana Salazar covers the “Top Three Data Continuity Techniques Businesses Need to Adopt Now” in her recently published byline in Data Centre Dynamics.

5. We love hosting industry friends at our Executive Briefing Center! It was great to spend time with Philippe Nicolas, founder of Coldago Research and Storage Newsletter editor, in our Englewood, Colorado offices to tour our labs and talk roadmap. So good to start reconnecting in person again, even if we are masked up and touring 6 feet apart!

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Leave a comment if there are topics you’d like to see added to our weekly top 5 happenings!

Natasha

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Welcome to another entry of ‘This Week at the Q’ and our top 5 highlights! It’s been the week to learn about some of our scientific and genomic customers, and the amazing research work they contribute to society.

1. As we all adjust to the pandemic, this story made me realize no matter what our role, we all play a part in the solution. This customer’s storage grew to over 100 PB as they committed to sequencing the whole genomes of up to 35,000 people who have had COVID-19 to better understand genetic susceptibility to the virus. Read more about Genomics England’s work here , and how they built an infrastructure that could grow to hundreds of petabytes to support their critical research.

2. Scientific research data is showing massive growth, and Max Planck Society is experiencing this first-hand with scientists across the globe. This new HPCwire coverage outlines how Quantum helps protect these large volumes of unstructured data and keep it accessible to researchers.

3. We received new Gartner Peer Reviews, including this Healthcare customer.  You can read the detailed review from their CTO here .

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Moving on from science and health, but sticking with Gartner Peer Reviews, check out this new customer review in the Finance industry.

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4. If you want to learn more about how Quantum enables customers in financial services, we’d love to meet with you at HPC + AI Wall Street – a leading conference for customers in FinTech and Capital Markets. We’re looking forward to being a sponsor of this show that advances the conversation of next-gen innovations in HPC and AI for new revenue streams, competitive advantage, and growth.

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5. And to close out, I can’t wait until international travel opens back up and I can visit Changi Airport in Singapore after reading this new blog from Quantum’s Jim Simon. Read more here to learn about how video surveillance keeps airports safe 24×7, or just to check out the world’s largest indoor waterfall!

Leave a comment if there are topics you’d like to see added to our weekly top 5 happenings!

Natasha

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This Week at the Q

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Welcome to another entry of ‘This Week at the Q’! On a personal note, it felt like a busy week juggling back to school, with schools here in San Diego still 100% virtual, as I took on my second job as teacher, but as I close out the week with our top 5 happenings I realize it may have just been a busy week all around!

  1. It’s great to see one of our sports production customers featured in ProductionHUB! For Nemeton TV, an increased demand for streaming services, a rising number of corporate sponsors streaming sporting events on their corporate websites, and distributing clips through social media, created a whole new area of business. Read here how a new storage infrastructure enabled new business opportunity.
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2. Storage Newsletter also ran a great article covering our new DXi software. Read more here on how the features and capabilities in this new software release improve enterprise data protection.

3. Speaking of our new DXi software, Diana Salazar, Product Marketing Manager, published this new blog: “Looking for Faster Backups? From Hours to Minutes? Look No Further.”  Read for deeper insights into how our new DXi 4.1 software release enables the lowest-cost, scalable, durable storage, that meets service-level agreements and security requirements for data protection.

4. We have a new webinar coming up, “The Anatomy of a 100-Year Archive for Unstructured Data” , featuring industry expert Fred Moore of Horison Information Strategies. Join us on Sept. 22nd @ 8am PT to learn how to protect and manage rapidly growing unstructured datasets for decades to come.

5. And to close out the week, we published a new StorNext file system datasheet, including more detailed information on features and functionality, and new architecture diagrams. You can learn more in this new StorNext datasheet here .

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Natasha

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1. This week we published a new customer case study, Max Planck Society. Scientists from across the globe work and research at the Max Planck Institute in various scientific fields across natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Max Planck Institutes are involved in more than 4,500 cooperation projects in over 100 countries.

The Joint Network Center (GNZ) at the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) provides technology services for Max Planck Society. To better protect large volumes of scientific data, the GNZ needed to accelerate their storage backup process and improve their archiving. Read this new case study to learn how they were able to shrink their backup window, reduce costs, help ensure the long-term integrity of their data, and gain scalability to support fast-growing scientific data volumes.

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2. We also announced the release of new DXi software with advanced features and capabilities for DXi backup appliances to significantly improve backup and restore system performance, as well as monitor systems remotely utilizing cloud-based analytics.

IDC’s Phil Goodwin, Research Director, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group: “Traditional backup and recovery software remains strong, even as organizations add cloud-based backup to their data protection strategies. The combination of a Quantum DXi appliance and Veeam V10 shows great potential for enterprises seeking to protect their vital hybrid-cloud environments. Faster synthetic full backups enabled by this release means that organizations can backup more often, thereby reducing the risk of data loss and delivering a better RPO.”

Read more about this announcement in this Enterprise Talk press coverage .

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3. Check out this new blog by Eric Bassier, Quantum’s Sr. Director of Product Marketing, “Are You Experiencing Unstructured Data Sprawl?” He outlines how “unstructured data sprawl” is the emerging problem that many CIOs and large enterprises are dealing with, and the need to classify the data, how to work with it when you need it, and how to store it safely when you are not actively working with it. 

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4. Speaking of unstructured data sprawl, the need for an archive strategy has never been greater. Check out this in-depth video with industry expert, Fred Moore of Horison Information Strategies, with Dave Vellante on theCUBE, covering the topic of “Reinventing Archives.”

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5. This new SearchStorage article, “On-premises STaaS Shifts Storage Buying to Opex Model,” is a great overview of the growing field of STaaS, and discusses the benefits of a pay-as-you-go subscription model, the flexibility STaaS offers, and the simplified management for customers.

Leave a comment if there are topics you’d like to see added to our weekly top 5 happenings!

Natasha

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Are you Experiencing Unstructured Data Sprawl?

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Internet-connected machines and devices, such as video cameras, high-resolution image capture on manufacturing floors, data logging in connected cars, surveillance cameras, drones, and more are producing massive volumes of unstructured data at the rate of Terabytes per day (and in some cases Terabytes per hour). 

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We are finding that this “machine and device-generated” unstructured data may not always be visible to CIOs, and large enterprises are suffering from unstructured data sprawl. If you are storing much of this data in the cloud, you may have multiple copies that you are paying for every month.

How Do You Protect and Store Your Unstructured Data for Decades?

The typical approach is to keep doing what you are doing – keep it all on scale-out NAS and try to protect it as best you can. But in the face of the exponential velocity and volume of this data being generated, traditional approaches are breaking down. Compounding the problem is that much of this data needs to be stored and protected for decades. This introduces an added element of complexity – how do you protect multiple PB’s of data and store it cost-effectively for decades?

Taming Unstructured Data Sprawl – How Quantum Can Help

This “unstructured data sprawl” is THE EMERGING PROBLEM that many CIOs and large enterprises are dealing with and Quantum can help through our solution-building expertise and a portfolio of object storage and archive solutions . We’ve been dealing with these datasets for years, we understand how to classify the data, how to work with it when you need it, and store it safely when you are not actively working with it. We’ve built some of the largest archives in the world and we can help you. 

If you are dealing with unstructured data sprawl, give us a call and our experts will help you solve your complex unstructured data needs. We also encourage you to schedule a virtual briefing in our Quantum Executive Briefing Center (EBC), where we assemble our solution experts and best engineers and have a discovery session about your needs. Visit our Quantum EBC page to schedule your visit.

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This Week at the Q

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Welcome to another entry of ‘This Week at the Q’! The best part of my job is telling our customer stories, and learning about their projects, so this was a fun week with case studies and press releases.

  1. My son has never been so excited as to watch his Dodgers last night! He may be their biggest fan, he bleeds blue, but more I could see some small sense of ‘normalcy’ for him with the return of baseball this week. Which makes this SVG article, “Texas Rangers Open Doors to Globe Life Field with Full-IP Control Room” , well timed, as the new field hosts its first official MLB game today! Read about how our partner, Diversified , worked with the Texas Rangers to integrate the control room for in-venue operations, including Quantum storage. Enjoy watching some ball!
  2. This week, we announced the addition of new multi-factor authentication software to our Scalar® i3 and i6 tape libraries. Read this release for more about how this helps secure critical off-line data against ransomware and other cyber attacks.
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3. TVB Europe ran an article, “Nemeton TV Speeds Up Its Sports Content” . Nemeton TV has produced captivating sports content for major broadcast for over 25 years – including the sport of shinty, which was fun to learn about! Read more to learn about Nemeton TV, some of their prior storage challenges, and how Quantum helped them address the rising demand for streaming services.

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4. Quantum joined the Active Archive Alliance . Our recent acquisition of ActiveScaleTM object storage, combined with our leading tape platforms, strengthens our leadership in active archive infrastructure, and we look forward to adding our voice to this Alliance focused on addressing customer needs to retain and manage large unstructured data sets.

5. Storage Consortium featured Quantum customer, Studio Hamburg, in this article, “Digitization of Archived Media at Studio Hamburg – Postproduction with Quantum Storage” (if you don’t speak German, Google translate at the top right will give you the English version!). On top of a growing volume of high-resolution content, a turning point for Studio Hamburg was a large-scale digitization project. Read more about how they were commissioned to digitize an entire film archive, including about 11,000 hours of 16mm and 35mm film.

Leave a comment if there are topics you’d like to see added to our weekly top 5 happenings!

Natasha

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